How should we understand the many reports that poverty is the mother of innovation in India? What has the role of austerity been in the development of India's knowledge economy? In this critical study
Will 3D printers become as commonplace as mobile phones in the megacities or the backwaters of the Global South? Thomas Birtchnell and William Hoyle assess the development potential of this new techni
3D Printing in Custom Capitalism approaches the revolution of printing in 3D from a socially and culturally informed perspective, avoiding media hyperbole and technological determinism. It presents an
3D Printing in Custom Capitalism approaches the revolution of printing in 3D from a socially and culturally informed perspective, avoiding media hyperbole and technological determinism. It presents an
Small in number but great in influence, mobile elites have shaped the contours of global capitalism. Today these elites continue to flourish globally but in a changing landscape. The current economic
Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move obje
